Keeping an Eye Open: Essays on Art

Synopsis

An extraordinary collection of essays on the great masters of nineteenth- and twentieth-century art—from the booker prize-winning, bestselling author of the sense of an ending. “an engaging and empathetic volume. ” —the new york times book review as julian barnes notes: “flaubert believed that it was impossible to explain one art form in terms of another, and that great paintings required no words of explanation. Braque thought the ideal state would be reached when we said nothing at all in front of a painting . but it is a rare picture that stuns, or argues, us into silence.